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    • Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
    • By: Genevieve von Petzinger
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 369 ratings
    • The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world—the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language....

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    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41,535 ratings
    • The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....

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    • How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
    • By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,257 ratings
    • Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last 75 years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,473 ratings
    • Christmas is the single biggest annual event on the planet, a time for merry-making, over-indulgence, peace, goodwill, and the occasional family row. It’s as comfortable and familiar as a pair of old shoes and yet still glittery and exciting. But what do you really know about it....

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    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 793 ratings
    • In this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, Plato sought to answer some of the world's most formidable questions....

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    • A History of the Greater United States
    • By: Daniel Immerwahr
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,515 ratings
    • Author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light....

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    • A New History of the Aztecs
    • By: Camilla Townsend
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves....

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    • By: Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,222 ratings
    • What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question....

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    • The Germans, 1933-45
    • By: Milton Mayer
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 449 ratings
    • First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,796 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • America and the World in the Free Market Era
    • By: Gary Gerstle
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was....

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    • Life of a Colossus
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,921 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

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    • 2nd Edition
    • By: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Narrated by: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Want to make sense of the US Constitution? This new edition walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and how they have guided legislators, judges, and presidents - and sparked ongoing debates along the way....

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    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098 ratings
    • In this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption....

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    • The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 31 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 654 ratings
    • From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans....

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    • By: Alfred W. McCoy
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • In a completely original analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power - from the 1890s through the Cold War - and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the 21st century....

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    • White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
    • By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 594 ratings
    • A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy....

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    • By: Lilia M. Schwarcz, Heloisa M. Starling
    • Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • In an extraordinary journey that spans 500 years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country....

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    • Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

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